Royal Road - Read Stories
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- Itemized reading history of individual chapters read
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- Customize your profile page with a banner
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more - Critical fix: Crash on app resume.
- Fix: If OS kills the app while app was in background and the app had a popup open, when the user reopened the app, the footer remained disabled.
- Fix: In comments, make the disabled buttons look different from active buttons.
- Fix: TTS/Chapter audio for US voices for words fae, bow, bowed, bowing and NO.
- Fix: TTS/Chapter audio - pressing "next chapter" button in between last sentence and the chapter end announcement, did not cancel the chapter end announcement
- Fix: Quote in text editor caused scrolling.
- Probable fix: TTS/Chapter audio had more delay between sentences when minimized.
- Probable fix: TTS/Chapter audio getting stuck in play mode sometimes.
- Probable fix: Snail paced slow load times on WiFi for users having misconfigured IPv6 settings.
- Misc: Internal updates.
2.48 1 day ago
- Fix: Edit suggestions does not highlight the difference in character mode sometimes.
- Fix: On users' demand, return of the Rep button for own comments.
- Fix: For some reason when a book is added twice to the same library list, it crashed the app on the page where the book appears.
- Internal updates.
2.47 10 Aug
- Probable Fix: WiFi connectivity issue.
- Probable Fix: Sometimes page colors are not restored when moving from chapter page to any other page.
- Fix: Global filter popup did not search by title in the tags box, it only searched by value.
- Fix: Date fields with "ago" display format did not update.
- Fix: TTS not able to skip back from a sentence that has only non-alphanumeric characters.
- Fix: Do not speak ◊ special character.
- Fix: Scroll position did not restore properly when going back to home page from some other page.
- Fix: Restore scroll position on Library page.
- Fix: Auto download all button text.
2.46 1 Aug
- Critical Fix: Audio skip back did not work well when two consecutive sentences were identical.
- Critical Fix: Sometimes, chapter audio automatically started playing after any notification alert sound, even if the audio was manually paused previously.
- Fix: Date time not following user's setting on Notification page and Profile reputation page.
- Fix: Don't show Rep button on own comment.
- Fix: In Report popup, submit button does not show up when top level option is changed.
- Fix: Scroll position mess on popup close and when popup is kept open with audio on.
- Fix: On Chapter page, Zoom image button opened link and open link button zoomed image.
- Fix: System announcement in the book "The Dragon's Slow Vengeance" was repeated twice.
- Remove: "times used" indicator from passkeys.
2.45 22 Jul
- Fix: The ghost keyboard appearing again after the external keyboard fix.
- Fix: More fixes for undo/redo stack of text editor, when app is reopened or when multiple suggestions are added to a single comment.
- Fix: The app didn't resize sometimes when keyboard opened for typing suggestions or comments on chapter page.
- Fix: Secondary "select all" OS menu didn't work in the text editor for comment/suggestions in blockquote.
- Fix: Changing orientation to landscape while the fiction cover is zoomed caused the image to cutoff.
- Fix: More fixes for auto-next. If next chapter is auto loaded within 3 minutes of app minimization or screen lock; when screen unlocked or app was maximized, the app jumped back to that auto loaded chapter, no matter how many other chapters he/she auto read after that.
- Fix: TTS/Chapter audio pronunciation of "sake".
- Probable Fix: Login issue faced by some users.
- New: Add option to always show audio skip buttons in chapter.
- Fix: Ghost tap on images made everything in the app unclickable + add an option to cancel the zoom or open link alert.
- Fix: ol tag numbers not respecting margin/padding.
- Fix: TTS voices with word "online" in their title spoke a single "No" as "Nitrogen Monoxide".
- Fix: TTS voices which do not have the word "online" in their title spoke Dr. as "drive" instead of "doctor".
- Fix: Footnotes got covered up / truncated, if they appeared at the end of the screen.
- Fix: Remove the remnant "manage age" button in the fiction rating blocker.
- Fix: Chapter comments pagination did not work sometimes after posting a comment.
- Fix: Wiki search not working with non-english characters with accents.
- Fix: Text in blockquote was all bold.
- Fix: There was horizontal scrolling in library page.
- Probable fix: Connectivity issue.
- Probable fix: Submitting suggestions after reminder on next chapter didn't work.
- Probable fix: Sometimes, chapter randomly jumped to top on popup close.
- Probable fix: Crash issue while listening to TTS.
- Probable fix: Page not moving to top on next chapter and after navigation.
2.44 15 Jul
- Fix: Reset reader suggestion undo stack when the suggestion is posted and also when it is deleted from reminder alert.
- Fix: Textbox didn't scroll after reaching max height. It also jittered.
- Fix: Large gap between the keyboard and the textarea.
- Fix: On iPad, can't type if you minimize onscreen keyboard and have an external keyboard attached.
- Internal updates
2.43 12 Jun
- Fix: Corrupted data on downloads page.
- Fix: On some devices, if next chapter is auto loaded within 3 minutes of app minimization or screen lock; when screen is unlocked or app was maximized, the app jumped back to that auto loaded chapter which loaded within 3 minutes, no matter how many other chapters he/she auto read after that.
- New: Beta support for CarPlay for premium users. Browse your lists from CarPlay itself & play any book's chapter from there. The supported lists are: reading history, follows, downloads, favorites and read later. Current limitation is that you have to be on the chapter page in the app to view all the options in CarPlay. We are working on it and we will remove that limitation, if possible. It may take lots of time to remove that limitation.
2.42 3 Jun
Critical Fix: Chapter auto-next not working when app is in background for long.
2.41 29 May
- Fix: Clear edit suggestions undo stack on chapter change.
- Fix: Double paste when using OS "Paste" context menu in textbox.
2.40 28 May
- Fix: In chapter audio/tts, skip speaking special characters 『 and 』.
- Fix: In textbox, sometimes, text content scrolled to top when user tapped in an empty area.
2.39 27 May
- Probable fix: IPv6 and IPv4 network switch issue.
- Fix: Multiple alerts were shown when user signed into a non-premium account, if user had signed into some other premium account previously.
- Fix: Chapter audio/TTS auto next hanged if any popup was open and resumed after popup was closed.
- Probable fix: Random transparent line on screen on app resume.
- Misc: Internal fixes.
2.38 22 May
- Fix: Downloads page crashed when there were many downloads, fully refactored the page. Some compromises had to be made in terms of what we could show on the page to make this work.
- Probable Fix: Double battery consumption because of preloading chapters when chapter audio/TTS is on.
2.37 11 May
Critical Fix: App crashing on startup for iOS versions below 17
2.36 6 May
- Probable fix: Unexpected error on app restart when app has been in background for long.
- Probable fix: Last attempt to fix the vanishing footer items.
2.35 6 May
- Fix: Chapter prev/next buttons.
- Fix: Footer code refactored because of invisible buttons issue.
- Misc: Internal updates.
2.34 4 May
- Fix: Colored paragraph separator was shown in grayscale.
- Fix: Own comment buttons layout.
- Fix: App startup flash of white page.
- Fix: App not following custom font size setting on app restart.
- Probable fix: Footer buttons vanishing on app focus.
- Probable fix: On some devices (we know about Samsung so far), the app hanged on TTS/Chapter audio auto-next, when auto-next was triggered within 3 minutes of app backgrounding.
- Experimental fix: Premium users who have not downloaded the book and listening to chapter audio with auto-next faced network issue when the OS put the device in deep sleep. We are caching 5 chapters in memory for such users as an experimental fix.
- Misc: Extra logs to track unexpected errors that crash the app.
- Misc: Some extra logs to see why some users are facing problem with phone rotation on chapter page.
2.33 30 Apr
- Fix: Draft saved message was wrong.
- Probable fix: App hanging when pause/play is tapped in quick succession for some users.
- Fix: Keyboard overlapping text area.
- Misc: Internal updates.
2.32 19 Apr
- Fix: TTS/Chapter audio play button always visible on chapter page.
- New: Added a new close button to temporarily remove the in-chapter TTS/Chapter audio buttons.
- Probable fix: Footer buttons vanishing.
- Probable fix: App crashing after 2 hours of continuous use.
- Probable fix: Network connectivity issues when users have WiFi + mobile data switched on simultaneously.
- Possible fix: Random issue where half the UI is covered by empty space at the bottom.
2.31 16 Apr
- Fix: More wikipedia apostrophe fixes.
- Probable fix: Bottom menu items, except for home button, vanishing sometimes.
- Fix: App resume sometimes eats up half the screen.
- Probable fix: App not working on WiFi for some users. Mostly those who have mobile data & WiFi switched on at the same time.
2.30 10 Apr
- Critical Fix: TTS/Chapter audio "Auto next" not working after the first auto next success.
2.29 5 Apr
- Fix: Wikipedia link and wiki search of words with apostrophe.
- Fix: Fast TTS/Audio forward or backward, while receiving notification alerts, caused TTS/Audio to hang.
- Fix: TTS/Audio buttons didn't work in media center.
2.28 2 Apr
- Fix: Wikipedia text not showing up for words that redirect.
- Fix: Pressing "next" while the auto next is loading the next chapter caused the app to jump two chapters.
- Fix: Pre-selected "genres" and "content warnings" not applied in the advanced search.
- Fix: TTS/Chapter audio speed setting with decimal value, e.g. 2.08, caused extra pause after each sentence.
- Probable Fix: Transparent line with shadow appearing in the middle of the screen sometimes on chapter page.
- Probable Fix: Startup release notes popup and ad not closing.
- Probable Fix: Keeping the audio settings popup open while the TTS/Chapter audio is playing caused weird UI issues.
- Probable Fix: Chapter not scrolling to last read position when app re-opens, if an ad or release notes popup shows up.
2.27 31 Mar
- Fix: Wikipedia result did not handle "disambiguation" response.
- Fix: Loading indicator visible in the zoomable image popup, when the image is transparent or when the loaded image is moved around.
- Fix: Fast jump forward caused TTS to pause and not resume, requiring app restart.
2.26 29 Mar
- Fix: No release notes visible on release notes page in regions where "," is used as number separator.
- New: Option to customize the pause length for ellipsis and between sentences. The option can be found in the chapter audio settings.
2.25 24 Mar
-Fix: TTS/Chapter audio didn't resume sometimes when forward/backward buttons were used in quick succession.
2.24 24 Mar
- Critical fix: Crash on app resume.
- Fix: If OS kills the app while app was in background and the app had a popup open, when the user reopened the app, the footer remained disabled.
- Fix: In comments, make the disabled buttons look different from active buttons.
- Fix: TTS/Chapter audio for US voices for words fae, bow, bowed, bowing and NO.
- Fix: TTS/Chapter audio - pressing "next chapter" button in between last sentence and the chapter end announcement, did not cancel the chapter end announcement
- Fix: Quote in text editor caused scrolling.
- Probable fix: TTS/Chapter audio had more delay between sentences when minimized.
- Probable fix: TTS/Chapter audio getting stuck in play mode sometimes.
- Probable fix: Snail paced slow load times on WiFi for users having misconfigured IPv6 settings.
- Misc: Internal updates.
more Version 2.48 1 day ago
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